Legal Opinion
Opinion No.
Texas Attorney General Reports
Decided September 12, 2003Published
1Opinion of the Court
The Honorable Mark Burtner Lamar County Attorney 119 North Main Street Paris, Texas 75460
Re: Whether a sheriff may contract personally to provide security to a private entity (RQ-0031-GA)
Dear Mr. Burtner:
You ask whether the sheriff of Lamar County may contract with an apartment complex personally to provide security services. As you explain the matter, the sheriff's "duties would include enforcing criminal trespass, and other criminal misdemeanor and felony statutes."1
Your letter notes that a similar issue is addressed in Attorney General Opinion JM-57 (1983), which disapproved a proposed…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Aldine Independent School District v. StandleyTexas Supreme Court · 1955
- Clear Lake City Water Authority v. Clear Lake Utilities Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1977
- Weber v. City of SachseCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1979
- State Ex Rel. Hightower v. SmithTexas Supreme Court · 1984
- Naill v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1910